Life
1938- ; historian; b. Dublin, s. of Robert Dudley Edwards; ed. Belvedere,
UCD, Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), Reader in History at Edinburgh University
from 1968; Professor of English
and American Studies. DIW
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Works
The Sins of Our Fathers, Roots of Conflict in Northern Ireland
(1970); The Mind of an Activist – James Connolly (1971); P
G Wodehouse, A Critical & Historical Essay (1977); Celtic Nationalism
(1968), with Gwynffor Evans, Ioan Rhys, and Hugh MacDiarmid; Burke
and Hare (1981, rep. 1994); A Quest for Sherlock Holmes (1982);
Edinburgh (1983); ed. with Fergus Pyle, 1916, The Easter Rising
(1968); ed. Conor Cruise O’Brien Introduces Ireland (1969);
ed. with Bernard Ransom, James Connolly, Selected Political Writings
(1973); ed. with George Shepperson, Scotland, Europe and the American
Revolution (1976); also Owen Dudley Edwards, ‘Patrick MacGill
and the making of a historical source; with a handlist of his works’,
in The Innes Review of the Scottish Catholic Historical Association,
37, 2 (1986), pp.73-99; Owen Dudley Edwards, ‘ Anthony Trollope, Irish Writer’, in Nineteenth Century Fiction, Vol. 38 No. 1 (June 1983), pp.1-42; Owen Dudley edwards, Review of J. J. Lee, ed., Ireland 1945-1970 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1979), in The Irish Times (15 Dec 1979).
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Criticism
Willy Maley, review of Burke and Hare (rep. 1994), in History Ireland (Summer 1994), p.62.
Notes
Gombeen defined: ‘Patrick MacGill [&c]’, Innes
Review of the Scottish Catholic Historical Association (1986), Edwards
defines a 'gombeen man' as ‘Catholic, patriotic, hypocritical and avaricious’.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)